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	World Fantasy Award for Best Novel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novel or novels voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
		The 25th World Fantasy Convention, held in Providence, Rhode Island, was co-chaired by Chip Hitchcock and Davey Snyder.
		WFC 2002, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was chaired by Greg Ketter.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Best_Novel (1206 words)

	Conlan Press - TAMSIN
		Beagle's latest novel is a delightful fantasy that blends the pains and joys of adolescence with a ghost story rich with romance and tragedy.
		Once ensconced in an old house in rural Dorset, however, Jenny encounters the ghost of a young girl whose plight binds her to the world of the living in spite of her desire to experience what lies beyond death.
		Eventually, in helping poor Tamsin find the secret of her lost love and defeat the "Wild Hunt," or the lost souls that swarm through the air at odd times, pursued by demons, Jenny grows up and is able to look back upon her tale from the grand old age of 19.
	www.conlanpress.com /html/books_TM.html (1048 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Award Winners
		The Nebula Awards® are presented by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) and thus are given by authors to authors, a high honor indeed.
		The Mountains of Mourning [A Vorkosigan Novel] by Lois McMaster Bujold
		Barrayar [A Vorkosigan Novel] by Lois McMaster Bujold
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	Tanith Lee Bibliography - Frequently Asked Questions
		The Birthgrave was nominated for the 1975 Nebula Award for best novel.
		Nunc Dimittis was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best novella, and Red As Blood, or, Tales From The Sisters Grimmer was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for best anthology/collection.
		Jedella Ghost was nominated for the 1999 British Fantasy Award for best short fiction.
	www.daughterofthenight.com /tlfaq.html (1260 words)

	The Hugo Award (Science Fiction Achievement Award)
		The distinguishing characteristics of the Hugo Award are that it is sponsored by WSFS, administered by the committee of the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) held that year, and determined by nominations from and a popular vote of the membership of WSFS.
		The John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the Best New Writer is administered by the Worldcon Committee and determined by the same nomination and voting mechanism as the Hugo.
		The Gandalf Award was an award which, like the Campbell Award, was administered by the Worldcon Committee and determined by the Hugo nomination and voting mechanism.
	worldcon.org /hugos.html (328 words)

	ipedia.com: Barry Hughart Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		He was born in Peoria, Illinois and is best known for a series set in "an Ancient China that never was", recounting the adventures of Li Kao, an eccentric genius, an...
		He was born in Peoria, Illinois and is best known for a series set in "an Ancient China that never was", recounting the adventures of Li Kao, an eccentric genius, and his assistant Number Ten Ox.
		Bridge of Birds won the 1985 World Fantasy Award for best novel and the 1986 Mythopoeic Award for best fantasy.
	www.ipedia.com /barry_hughart.html (181 words)

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		The 1998 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel went to The Physiognomy (Avon Books) by Jeffrey Ford, a fascinating tale set in a world that is at once strange and eerily familiar.
		The novel is a compelling combination of action, intrigue and philosophy.
		From the first paragraph, the reader is drawn into this world where magic and science intertwine with the grotesque and the sublime.
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	Towing Jehovah by James Morrow, a satirical religious fantasy book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		1995 World Fantasy Award for best novel Towing Jehovah
		His novels are The Wine of Violence (1981), The Continent of Lies (1984), This is the Way the World Ends (1986), and Slainte (2002).
		Morrow edited the anthologies Nebula Awards 26 (1992), Nebula Awards 27 (1993), and Nebula Awards 28 (1994).
	members.aol.com /tishede/morrow2.htm (420 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Louise Erdrich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Part of that "new country" appears in the 1998 novel The Antelope Wife, a departure for Erdrich in her adult novels in its focus on new families, the Roys and the Shawanos, living in contemporary Minneapolis.
		As with all of her novels, the plot here also manages to loop back a century to an attack on an Ojibwe village and a child carried off on the back of a dog.
		In the novel Erdrich reprises a character encountered earlier in her cycle of novels, Father Damien, a Catholic priest.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/whm/bio/erdrich_l.htm (6478 words)

	Emerald City - #87
		Unlike the Hugos, the World Fantasy Awards are presented at a banquet.
		The latter won both the Mythopoeic and World Fantasy Awards, but it is the former that captured the imagination.
		Their Andrew Fraknoi has compiled a list of science fiction novels that are noted for their high and accurate astronomical content, and he has posted that list to the web site of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.
	www.emcit.com /emcit087.shtml (7739 words)

	The Citadel: Books - Ellen Kushner
		Beautifully written by Kusher and her partner, Delia Sherman, the novel is a worthy successor to it's "mannerpunk" predecessor.
		This excellent fantasy novel by Kushner won the World Fantasy Award for best novel (as did her other novel, Swordspoint), and when one reads it one learns why.
		In many ways it's a very different novel from her other award-winner, given that the story touches heavily on elfs and Faerie, working in a theme of how dull real life can be both enriched and endagered by the imagination.
	www.westeros.org /Citadel/Books/Kushner.html (325 words)

	Pop Thought -- Samuel Tomaino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The story is continued in the subsequent volumes The Claw of the Conciliator (1981), The Sword of the Lictor (1982) and concluding in The Citadel of the Autarch (1983).
		We never learn his name in "our world" but the story is told by the young man, writing it all down in the hopes that his brother, Ben, who is his only family, might somehow read it.
		In 1951, she published the novella "Dune Roller" which was well regarded enough to be adapted for television for the anthology series "Tales From Tomorrow" and to be anthologized in an "Alfred Hitchcock anthology" in the 1960’s.
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	Paladin of Souls by Lois McMaster Bujold - SFandF.com - Science Fiction Books and Fantasy Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Hugo Award was named in honor of Hugo Gernsback, "The Father of Magazine Science Fiction," as he was described in a special award given to him in 1960.
		The Hugo Award, also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society (WSFS).
		Robert Sawyer's SF novels are perennial nominees for the Hugo Award, the Nebula Award, or both.
	www.sfandf.com /html/scifi-fantasy-books.html?id=6&p1=hugow&p2=books&p3=aw (1048 words)

	Diana Wynne Jones -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		She was raised in the village of (additional info and facts about Thaxted) Thaxted in Essex, and now lives in (additional info and facts about Clifton) Clifton in the city of (An industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon) Bristol, England.
		Her most famous work is the Chrestomanci series, which tells of the adventures of a nine-lived enchanter in a series of connected worlds who is responsible for preventing the misuse of magic.
		She dedicated her novel Hexwood to him after something he said in a conversation inspired a key part of the plot.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/diana_wynne_jones.htm (586 words)

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		Among the best known are The Riddle-Master of Hed (1976), Harpist in the Wind (1979; nominated for the Best Novel Hugo Award), and Nebula Best Novel nominees Winter Rose (1996) and The Tower at Stony Wood (2001).
		Her latest novels are Ombria in Shadow (2002, winner of the World Fantasy Award), In the Forests of Serre (2003) and Alphabet of Thorn (2004).
		The five novels in the sequence, set in a fantasy world 5,000 years after a holocaust, are The Sharpest Edge (1986), The Cage (1989), Shadow’s Daughter (1991, by Shirley Meier alone), Shadow’s Son (1991) and Saber and Shadow (1992).
	members.tripod.com /stromata/id443.htm (14177 words)

	The SF Site: British Fantasy Award for Best Novel (August Derleth Award) Reviews Archive
		The British Weird Fantasy Society began in 1971 as an off-shoot of the British Science Fiction Association.
		Dedicated to the promotion of all that is best in the Fantasy and Horror genres, the BFS won the Special Award: Non-Professional at the World Fantasy Awards in 2000.
		If you're one of those people who avoid fantasy novels for fear of even the slightest whiff of wizards or elves, here's a well worthy quest: make haste to where your bookstore stuffs the countless Tolkien spawn and rescue a copy of of this book from the mediocre horde.
	www.sfsite.com /lists/award-britishfantasy01.htm (1650 words)

	Tor and Forge Books: Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens: First Annual Collection: Books: Jane Yolen, ...
		Among the many awards she has won are: two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, and the Jewish Book Award.
		PATRICK NIELSEN HAYDEN, winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology for Starlight 1, has been called "one of the most literate and historically aware editors in science fiction" by The Washington Post.
		World Fantasy Award for Best Novel ALA Best Books for Young Adults Book Two of the Great Alta Saga Jenna was the White Queen.
	www.tor-forge.com /torteen/theyearsbestsciencefictionandfantasyforteens (530 words)

	william harms \| writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		At the center of the story is thirteen-year-old John Vitosh, a lonely boy who lives under the constant violence of his older brother Philip.
		Published by San Francisco-based publisher AiT/Planet Lar, Abel features an afterword by Rachel Pollack, winner of the 1997 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and the cover is by Brian Wood.
		Abel was named one of the ten best comics of 2002 by The Oklahoman and KWTV-9.
	www.williamharms.com /abel.html (430 words)

	Science Fiction Weekly Interview
		That book, a fantastic blend of Celtic lore skewed with a contemporary sensibility, garnered him the 1985 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and inspired him to delve deeper into the forest of his dreams.
		Rupert Murdock is Odin, The Destroyer, physically weakened, indifferent to the consequences of his actions, supported by crazed demons, knowingly doomed, but determined to leave a legacy of wreckage on the face of the earth.
		There are many Dionysian figures in the world, drinking merrily from the cup of ignorance, though George Bush baffles me: I'm not aware of any mythological character who stares so intently into the Well of Despond and sees only oil and a bright future.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue356/interview.html (1916 words)

	Australian Authors - Peter Carey
		His novel True History of the Kelly Gang was shortlisted for the 2001 Miles Franklin Award, and My Life as a Fake was shortlisted for the 2004 Award.
		Illywhacker won the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel in 1986 and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in the same year.
		Probably the best of the Peter Carey sites around is the one maintained by Rebecca J Vaughan from the Flinders University of South Australia.
	www.middlemiss.org /lit/authors/careyp/careyp.html (1205 words)

	John Crowley Summary
		Little, Big, winner of the World Fantasy Award, was described by John Clute in the Washington Post Book World as a "dense, marvelous, magic-realist family chronicle about the end of time and the new world to come." The essayist for the St.
		He is best known as the author of Little, Big (1981), which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
		His scripts include The World of Tomorrow (on the 1939 World's Fair), No Place to Hide (on the bomb shelter obsession), The Hindenburg, and FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body (American fitness practices and beliefs over the decades with Laurie Block, his wife).
	www.bookrags.com /John_Crowley (1948 words)

	Department of English \| Yale University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		John Crowley is the author of nine novels and two collections of short fiction.
		Crowley’s short fiction is collected in three volumes: Novelty (containing the World Fantasy Award-winning novella Great Work of Time), Antiquities, and Novelties and Souvenirs, an omnibus volume containing almost all his short fiction (a new novella, The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines, will appear in 2005).
		His scripts include The World of Tomorrow (the 1939 World’s Fair), No Place to Hide (the bomb shelter obsession), The Hindenburg, and FIT: Episodes in the History of the Body (American fitness practices and beliefs over the decades; with Laurie Block).
	www.yale.edu /english/Profiles/crowley.htm (265 words)

	The SF Site: 2003 -- Best Read of the Year in Science Fiction and Fantasy
		Wolfe is no stranger to awards in general, having received many of the most prestigious genre awards (some more than once), including a World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement.
		Much of the novel is concerned with domestic life, but in the lives of people for whom premonitions and ghostly visitations are not uncommon.
		All in all, this series is modern space opera at its best, with all the sense-of-wonder enthusiasm of the golden age of SF, myriad really cool ideas and concepts, and good writing.
	www.sfsite.com /columns/best04.htm (2893 words)

	LearnThis.Info Encyclopedia articles beginning with 'Wo' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		World economic effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks
		World political effects arising from the September 11, 2001 attacks
		World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Bible Stories for Adults (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The dazzlingly effective best of a decidedly superior bunch: A murderously mutinous WW I American infantry private ends up in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier with a permanent honor guard; reversing his Babel decision, God gives everyone the power of perfect...
		Nice idea, and the best part is the heroes over the truce table talking about how this is the war to make all war seem rational.
		Two definite stand-outs are "The Deluge", showing how evil remained in the world after the great flood (and making some nasty implications for the lineage of the human race), and "Arms and the Woman", a hilarious yet totally relevant retelling of the Trojan War from Helen's perspective.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0156002442 (1589 words)

	World Fantasy Award for Best Novella - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This World Fantasy Award is given to the fantasy novella or novellas voted best by a panel of judges, and presented each year at the World Fantasy Convention.
		Winner: "The Man on the Ceiling", Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem (American Fantasy)
		This page was last modified 12:19, 2 August 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/World_Fantasy_Award_for_Best_Novella (1232 words)

	Emerald City: Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Reviews - #132
		When, to protect her niece, Aegypta Schenck had placed her in an artificial world, had invented the United States of America and the Romanian republic, and had written the book of their history, she’d worried that a seven-year-old child would not be easily adopted from the Constanta orphanage.
		One of the things about writing a series of fantasy or SF novels is that the shock of the new tends to last only for the first volume.
		He manages to describe the weird stuff in such a matter-of-fact way that you feel it is the real world he is talking about, which of course, from his point of view, it is. Characters from "civilized" countries such as Germany and Egypt tend to insist that the supernatural doesn’t exist.
	www.emcit.com /emcit132.php?a=4 (1414 words)

	Neil Gaiman
		(The World Fantasy Award is a bust of H. Lovecraft.
		Editor Jo Fletcher had brought his award back to the UK for him, and presented it to him at a British Fantasy Society Open Night.
		Fellow World Fantasy Award for Best Novel nominee -- and this year's World Fantasy Guest of Honour -- Jonathan Carroll, has a beautiful website for his new book up.
	www.neilgaiman.com /journal/2002/08/big-news-click-here-to-see-what-it-is.asp (259 words)

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